ON RAISING DOUBLE-FLOWERING STOCKS. S9 



in quunlity tliaii it previously grew in, contains more nourisliment 

 than all tlio old exhausted soil which the larger pot contained. 



If I were to disturb them before the new eyes are pushed out, 

 it is probable that many of the plants would not recover tho remo- 

 val, as their strength would be impaired by being distui-bed and 

 pruned. After they are potted, I put them into a cold frame or 

 pit, and shut them up close till I think they are well established 

 in their new soil ; I then expose tJiem to the air to harden, and 

 as the cold weather approaches I take them into the Greenhouse 

 with the other plants. In the spring they retjuire removing into 

 larger pots to flower, and by repotting them two or three times 

 during summer, a succession of flowers are produced for a much 

 longer time than Geraniums tliat are li'eatcd in the ordinaiy way. 

 If Geraniums are thus attended to every year, they will always be 

 in a healthy state, well furnished with half a dozen, or more, 

 branches instead of being tall, slender, and sickly-looking. 



Samuel Applbby. 



ARTICLE VII. — On Raising Douhle-flotvering Stocks 

 from Seed. By Paul Pry. 



It is with very great pleasure I take up my pen to inform your 

 correspondent W. B. page 21, the best method, I believe, yet prac- 

 tised of procuring double-flowering Stocks. Like him, I have 

 been misled, and have entertained the erroneous opinion that seeds 

 saved from j)lants gi-owing near double kinds, would produce plants 

 having double flowers, but such an idea is quite fallacious. It 

 will be found on examining a double flower, that there is no pollen 

 for the purjiose of impregnation whereby to produce tho cil'ect 

 slated. 



The method I pursue is, to select from the single flowering 

 plants Ihoso that have flowers with the greatest number of petals. 

 In looking over a bed of Stocks, some plants ore found having 

 flowers with four petals ; such I uniformly pull up as st)on as I 

 perceive them, and have them carried away some distance from the 

 bed. (Jthcrs I find with six p(l;ils to a flower, and some having 

 even more than that number; such plants T retain, and from llicni 

 I save my sct-ds, nnd I nnrr fail to have a considerable jjrojior- 



